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Jessica Sankiewicz is the author of the New Adult novella series, This Night. You can often find her either reading or marathon watching TV on DVD, her favorites being Castle and Veronica Mars. She frequently mismatches her clothes and giggles uncontrollably. She knows almost every Billy Joel song by heart. She collects books and toys, and she has an intense love of cats and lemurs. Jessica decided when she turned 27 that she would remain 27 forever. Currently in the midst of her quarter-life-crisis, she is still takin' names and getting very close to reaching an epiphany.

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Question of the Moment: What do you think of books written in verse? (7)

I started writing poetry in my early teens. I have continued to do so down to today. Not only did I love to write it, I also loved to read it. Of course, until more recently, I hadn’t read much in my life, but I did enjoy everything I did read.

Then I discovered there are books written in verse. I was beyond ecstatic. I never imagined anything like it was available. After reading a few of them, I got so excited about trying to do it myself with one of my old story ideas. It didn’t go so well. Writing a book in verse takes a lot of thought to the choice of words and placement of them. What came out for me was more like second grade rhyming poetry. I’m hoping someday to write at least a short story in verse. Until then, I’ll just sit back and enjoy great books written in verse.

Have you ever read books written in verse? What did you think of them? What are your favorites? Have you ever written a book in verse or wanted to? Tell me all about it!

For those who haven’t had the chance to read a book written in verse, here’s a short list of YA authors that write in verse, and some specific books to check out sometime to try one. Also, check out this list of Novels In Verse on Goodreads.

10 comments:

I've only read one book in verse, which was Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill, but I liked it and am pretty excited about finding a new genre to read. I bought I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Shroeder but haven't read it yet. I've also put Crank by Ellen Hopkins on my TBR list.

I absolutely love books written in verse! I love the cadence and it seems that my heart almost takes on the rhythm of the writing. As far as writing it myself, I don't think it would be my cup of tea, it would be difficult to get your mind and creativity to work along those lines.

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